Two Akron school buses loaded with eager fifth-graders rolled up the long lane onto the Panzner family property just outside Akron on a late September morning, and discharged the young scientists into a cold, steady drizzle.

The idea of project-based learning  the ''hands-on'' teaching approach Akron's new National Inventors Hall of Fame middle school has embraced  has its roots in the earliest years of the last century.

Next year's financial picture is looking a little brighter for Revere schools. Superintendent Randy Boroff said property values have grown 1 percent in the district, according to a Summit County valuation.

NORTH CANTON: Nearly 10 percent of Hoover High School's 1,715 students stayed home Tuesday after a message was discovered in a school dictionary two weeks ago threatening that ''something bad will happen on Dec. 15.''

STREETSBORO: The Streetsboro Board of Education approved the midyear layoff of 10 teachers, a computer technician and the director of pupil services Thursday in an unusual move that the teachers' union president says violates their contract.

Women's clothing designer Dana Buchman will visit Kent State this week to critique students' work. She will evaluate outfits made by 17 senior fashion design students from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in the atrium of Rockwell Hall on the Kent campus.